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Agopsowicz was arrested almost immediately for breaching court orders not to consume alcohol and drugs, after police watched him down two beers then smoke crack cocaine in a glass pipe outside 844 Johnson St., a supportive-housing facility. At his bail hearing the next day, Victoria provincial court Judge Ted Gouge made it clear he believed Agopsowicz was a public danger and should be kept in hospital. “Please convey to Andrew Agopsowicz’s physicians that I think the decision to discharge him from hospital was a mistake and we can only hope it does not have tragic consequences,” said...

Five people accused of having tricked an elderly woman into paying them thousands of euro as part of a romance fraud have been granted bail. The five accused – former footballer Sunday Eboh, Alexandra Pace, Collins Eguavoen, Marvis Iyeke and Tony Ogbonna – were arrested in February after police discovered that a woman had been tricked into sending €58,000 in various transactions to somebody she had met online. The woman was ostensibly sending the money to a US soldier deployed in Afghanistan. But investigators discovered that the money was being deposited in local bank accounts and eve...

Sunday Eboh, four others, granted bail on romance fraud case Retired local footballer Sunday Eboh, along with four others, has been released on bail nearly three months after being charged in Malta's first romance fraud case 23 April 2021, 2:59pm by Matthew Agius Five persons accused in Malta's first romance fraud case have been released on bail, nearly three months after being charged. They were released against a deposit of €4,000 and a personal guarantee of €16,000. They were also ordered to observe a curfew and sign a bail book every day. Prominent retired local footballer Sunday Eb...

A suspect fraudster allegedly involved in a group scam that tricked a woman into transferring some €58,000 to a bogus US soldier stationed in Afghanistan has been granted bail.  Tony Anuforo, a 34-year-old Nigerian national, was arraigned in February alongside three co-nationals and one Maltese woman as the suspects behind the swindle, whereby the unsuspecting victim was first lured into a fake virtual relationship with a fictitious soldier who told her he would travel to Malta upon deployment. As the virtual relationship progressed, the woman transferred small sums of money to the man, by...

A sixth player in a romance fraud, in which an elderly woman was swindled out of some €58,000, was remanded in custody upon his arraignment on Friday.  Nigerian-born Tabi Ovi, 36, living at Swieqi and working as a taxi driver, was escorted to court and charged with having money-laundering linked to a scam through which the victim was lured into a virtual relationship with a US soldier stationed in Afghanistan.  The man pleaded not guilty to money laundering as well as knowingly receiving property obtained through crime.  The man’s lawyer, Rachel Tua, did not request bail at the arraign...